Example sentences of "have [not/n't] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is regrettable that the House of Lords has not taken a similarly progressive approach . |
| 2 | The last Soviet troops left the country in 1958 and Romania has not taken part in any Warsaw Pact exercises since 1968 . |
| 3 | The export market has not taken up the slack , so redundancies are coming thick and fast . |
| 4 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 5 | It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits . |
| 6 | Related research in this area has focussed on the views of information systems managers only , and generally , has not taken into account the views of a range of managers . |
| 7 | They agree with Cohen 's argument that working-class boys are likely to form and join delinquent subcultures , but they feel he has not taken account of the different and specialised types of subculture that exist . |
| 8 | Although he has not taken alcohol in twenty-five years , the craving for it is still there . |
| 9 | Yet if prevention has not taken place , then surely it is too late to speak of performance ? |
| 10 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 11 | We have that freedom because the law has not taken it away , though it does limit its exercise . |
| 12 | When invoked , the Commission may , at any time within three months of notification and provided it has not taken steps to apply the Merger Regulation , refer a notified merger to the competition authorities of a member state to deal with under national legislation . |
| 13 | Fortunately , the wave of crack that swept American ghettos and the Caribbean has not taken root in this country apart from a few isolated cases in the North of England . |
| 14 | Now do n't ask me why , but ever since that fateful day ‘ Jaz ’ has not taken much of a liking to me . |
| 15 | But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him . |
| 16 | Although fox hunting has not taken place in Hyde Park for many years , an impressive Hunt Ball was held in the Polish Hearth Club in Kensington last week for Shropshire 's United Pack . |
| 17 | Hearing society , however , has not taken up this responsibility nor seen that all society 's members have a right of access to society 's knowledge . |
| 18 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 19 | It has not taken into account the evident disjuncture between the cultural norms of his home and community and those of the school . |
| 20 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 21 | Either the imaginary has been ignored altogether , in which case Irigaray is mistakenly described as a biological essentialist ( Sayers , 1982 , p. 131 ; 1986 , pp. 42–8 ) , or else it has been interpreted as purely and simply a Lacanian concept , in which case the conclusion is that Irigaray has misunderstood or misread Lacan , and has not taken on board the implications of his theory ( see Mitchell and Rose , 1982 , pp. 54 6 ; Rose , 1985 , pp. 136 , 140 ; Ragland-Sullivan , 1986 , pp. 273–80 ) . |
| 22 | He complains that the Secretary of State has not taken his petition properly into account . |
| 23 | There are internal disputes which are resolved by a visitor who is not a lawyer himself and has not taken legal advice . |
| 24 | A ‘ junior ’ means any barrister who has not taken silk ; and some highly successful barristers ( especially on the Chancery side ) remain juniors all their lives . |
| 25 | ‘ He has not taken these drugs , I hope . ’ |
| 26 | Compare this to the golfer in diagram B. He has not taken such a positive approach to the same tee-shot , and has failed to stand behind the ball-to-target line before addressing the ball . |
| 27 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 28 | It should be noted that the Board may withhold or reduce compensation of they consider that the applicant has not taken all reasonable steps to inform the police without delay . |
| 29 | Paul has not taken his eyes off his lover 's face . |
| 30 | That has not taken place . |